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Rick Wakeman

"But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great."

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"But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great."

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Akiroq Brost

"That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy - a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or a battleground, or a prison, but that does not make it any prettier."

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Akiroq Brost

"I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards."

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Akiroq Brost

"I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands and when we left respective bands other members from those bands all sort of changed round. It was a big sort of move thing. I got it from that, I suppose."

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Akiroq Brost

"I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play."

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Akiroq Brost

"I usually play disenfranchised youth."

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Akiroq Brost

"For anyone with half a brain they can see that this play is about the human condition."

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Akiroq Brost

"The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different."

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Akiroq Brost

"Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement."

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Akiroq Brost

"When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her."

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Akiroq Brost

"I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast."

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Rick Wakeman
"I was born in 1949 - which seems like a long time ago... Actually, it is a long time ago, when I think about it."

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Rick Wakeman
"My earliest professional musical experiences were really as a session player, and every day was an adventure. Three sessions a day, every day, and you never knew who you would be working with until you arrived at the studio."

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Rick Wakeman
"I like Toronto a lot, it's a good city. The only thing that really annoys me about Toronto is that you're turning Maple Leaf Gardens into a grocery store, which is absolutely nothing short of disgusting."

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Rick Wakeman
"When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!"

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Rick Wakeman
"People like Frank Zappa were amazing for us Brits."

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Rick Wakeman
"But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great."

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Rick Wakeman
"But I listen to live recordings of things that I did back in the '70s and then how I've done things since. And there's no doubt about it: if I compare the two, it's like chalk and cheese."

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Rick Wakeman
"Country and western is the music of the devil. That's the real truth of the matter. My late Mother, bless her, loved country and western. God, I couldn't handle it."

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Rick Wakeman
"I'm always writing or playing because that is my life."

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Rick Wakeman
"Actually, I only left twice. I left then, and then rejoined literally two years later for Going For The One."

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